Thanks for your precious feedback @noodle_hut ! For the multiples I had chosen some "randomly" without looking at whether they were active or not. Aware of what you suggest I would have purchased them active anyway. Thanks also for the tips on cables!
For the patches, maybe you're right: a system like that could be a bit limiting. Looking at the additions made by Toccata I think the system can become more flexible. I have various ideas and I'm trying to put them in order, both (indeed above all) for a question of money and to try to take a musical direction and not change it halfway.
Verbos attracts me, I don't know why! Maybe it's the colours, the fact that it's an harmonic oscillator or maybe it's because Caterina Barbieri uses it (listen to her if you don't know her): would you recommend anything else in its place? Also following your musical tastes, of course.
As you may have noticed my main source of "notes" is Metropolix - have you used it? What do you think about it? It seems like a large but worthwhile expense to me to use it as a command center.
Thanks again :)